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layout: post
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title: "Coati Release 0.6"
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description: "Test licenses, local variable selection, new aggregation edge design, increased autocompletion, project load and UI performance"
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author: Eberhard Gräther
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author-link: http://egraether.com
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We spent a lot of time developing the last couple weeks and made some major improvements to [Coati](https://www.coati.io/)'s performance and user interface. With this release we hit another big milestone on our journey to create a simple source explorer that can handle even the biggest code bases.
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This post shows what changed with our new release and gives a small roadmap towards the next release.
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<figure>
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<a href="../images/release_0_6/full.png">
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<img src="../images/release_0_6/full.png" alt="">
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</a>
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<figcaption>Screenshot of the current user interface.</figcaption>
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</figure>
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### New in this Release:
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* Greatly increased search autocompletion speed
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* Reduced duration of: project loading, file clearing, overview display, graph drawing
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* Added analysis for local variables
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* Added auto detection for global include paths for gcc, clang and VS
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* Support temporary test licenses
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* Many improvements on the UI
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You can download Release 0.6 [here](https://www.coati.io/downloads/). The full changelog is available [here](https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/CoatiBugTracker). We will outline a few features new to this release below.
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### Test Licenses
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Starting with this release, we also support temporary test licenses. If you want to test Coati please write us an e-mail to support@coati.io
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### Local Variables
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We added local variables to our analysis and save all occurences of the variable in our database. The user can see where a local variable is used within the function or method scope by hovering or clicking the variable. The variable can be deselected by clicking into empty space.
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<figure class="bordered">
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<a href="../images/release_0_6/local.png">
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<img src="../images/release_0_6/local.png" alt="">
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</a>
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<figcaption>Local variable selected with a blue highlight.</figcaption>
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</figure>
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### System Include Path detection
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So far it was necessary for users to manually find the system include paths their compiler is using and add them to the preferences in Coati. Now Coati will automatically detect if one of the compilers clang, gcc or VS is available via commandline. When the user presses detect the system include paths will be retrieved from the compiler output and added to the list.
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<figure class="bordered">
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<a href="../images/release_0_6/detection.png">
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<img src="../images/release_0_6/detection.png" alt="">
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</a>
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<figcaption>System include path detection within the project wizard.</figcaption>
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</figure>
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### Cleaner Design for Aggregation Edges
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Aggregation edges bundle relationships between children of classes together. These edges used to show how many edges are bundled with a number displayed on the edge. This design turned out to be bad when the graph is big. The numbers where often occluded and the straight connections looked messy. The new design draws aggregation edges similar to other edges. Their thickness increases with each power of 10 in number of bundled edges. The number of bundled edges is shown in the tooltip when hovering the aggregation edge.
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<figure class="half bordered">
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<a href="../images/release_0_6/aggregation_old.png">
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<img src="../images/release_0_6/aggregation_old.png" alt="">
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</a>
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<a href="../images/release_0_6/aggregation_new.png">
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<img src="../images/release_0_6/aggregation_new.png" alt="">
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</a>
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<figcaption>Old aggregation edge design left, new design right.</figcaption>
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</figure>
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## Roadmap
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We will release new Coati versions approximately every 5-6 weeks. Following features are planned for our next release:
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* Further increasing analysis and UI performance
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* Proper analysis dialog
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* Full text search in the search field
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Besides that we already make first steps towards supporting Java.
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